San Francisco firefighters and police officers attend to an accident scene involving a pedestrian death at the intersection of Yorba Street and Sunset Boulevard on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

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San Francisco firefighters and police officers attend to an accident scene involving a pedestrian death at the intersection of Yorba Street and Sunset Boulevard on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

Photo: Beck Diefenbach, Special To The Chronicle

San Francisco firefighters and police officers attend to an...

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San Francisco firefighters and police officers attend to an accident scene involving a pedestrian death at the intersection of Yorba Street and Sunset Boulevard on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

A driver who hit and killed a pedestrian crossing a busy street in San Francisco's Parkside neighborhood was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, police said Wednesday.

Jenny Ching, 71, was also cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian after the crash Tuesday morning that killed 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon, said Officer Gordon Shyy. Ching was not taken into custody.

Berenzon was walking east across Sunset Boulevard at Yorba Street in or near a crosswalk just before 11 a.m. when Ching, traveling south, hit him with a Toyota Corolla, police said.

The road has three lanes in each direction, separated by a median. The crosswalk near where Berenzon was struck features warning lights that flash when a pedestrian hits a button to cross, but police have not said whether the lights were in use at the time of the crash.

Berenzon was pronounced dead at the scene. Ching and her two passengers were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Berenzon's death was the latest in a string of pedestrian fatalities in San Francisco. Twenty-one pedestrians were killed in the city in 2013, and another was fatally struck Jan. 7.

The district attorney's office filed a misdemeanor manslaughter charge in a recent case. Giampaolo Boschetti, 69, of San Francisco is awaiting trial for striking and killing 86-year-old Zhen Guang Ng of San Francisco in a crosswalk in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood on New Year's Eve day.

Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the district attorney, said Ching's case had not been presented to prosecutors.

Messages left for Ching on Wednesday were not immediately returned.

According to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, Ching has a good driving record with no recent history of tickets, accidents or departmental actions.